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For teams to make deep playoff runs, they need contributions from the depth of their roster. Just think of Yanni Gourde for Tampa Bay’s pair of Cups, Bowen Byram’s outstanding postseason four years ago, or Evan Rodrigues in the 2024 postseason. Which depth players are poised to make
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Welcome back to another week of ’10 Interesting (To Me) Stats!’ Next week’s newsletter will focus on playoff matchups, so let’s use this week’s column to discuss individual trophy winners. The focus for today’s newsletter will be two individual awards: the Norris Trophy for the league’
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Welcome back for another week of ’10 Interesting (To Me) Stats’. Tracking data and play-driving data are useful tools to see who is helping elevate their teammates, and that is especially true for defencemen. The issue is that a lot of defencemen start in lesser roles, so their impact
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Welcome back for another week of ’10 Interesting (To Me) Stats’. This week, we’re looking at players having up-or-down seasons and why the defencemen they’re playing with are influencing that performance. In September, this newsletter wrote about something called ‘Botch+Fail%’ using 5-on-5 tracking
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Welcome back for another week of ’10 Interesting (To Me) Stats’! This newsletter typically focuses on what has happened this season, but today, we’re taking a bit of a longer view. Today, we are looking at the top performers of the last two seasons without using back-of-the-
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Welcome back to another week of ’10 Interesting (To Me) Stats!’ Last month, this newsletter covered how some forwards were faring this season relative to their teammates. Today, we’re doing the same thing, but exclusively evaluating defencemen in the context of their teams. That evaluation will be a percentage
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Welcome back for another week of ’10 Interesting (To Me) Stats’! The NHL Trade Deadline is Friday, and teams will be loading up either for a playoff run or, if they’re fortunate, a Stanley Cup run. With that in mind, let’s review 10 Cup contenders and one weakness
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Welcome back for another week of ’10 Interesting (To Me) Stats’! This week we’re doing an update. Back on December 2nd, this newsletter covered early-season performances from this year’s crop of rookies. Now that we’re two-thirds of the way through the campaign, let’s take
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Welcome back to another week of ’10 Interesting (To Me) Stats’. This week, we’re going around the league answer one question: how are teams or players creating their offence, by carrying the puck in or dumping the puck in? Both approaches have their merits, so let’s see who
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Welcome back to another week of ’10 Interesting (To Me) Stats’! This week, we’re reviewing some unsung heroes of the 2025-26 season thus far. We are focusing on secondary forwards who’ve been difference-makers in the lesser roles they are given while their team’s stars get
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Welcome back for another week of ’10 Interesting (To Me) Stats’! Too often – and I am guilty of this – analysts provide player data and compare that directly to others around the league without providing that player’s team-specific context. Identifying which players are succeeding within their team context can
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Welcome back to another week of ’10 Interesting (To Me) Stats’! This column often focuses on 5-on-5 play, and the reasons are 5-on-5 play is where the biggest ice-time sample comes from, and that’s where a lot of tracking data comes from. In general,